Catching You Up

We are going to catch you up on some pictures of our learning since it has been a while since we have posted with you. Just a reminder that practice and subject updates for practice on the homepage of our class website.

The pictures below are showing the complex 3-dimensional symmetrical designs we were able to create from taking a deeper look at symmetry.

We are Symmetry Super Stars****!!!

Math Workshop

We are studying 2D and 3D shapes. In math workshop we are working in a 4 station rotation to explore different aspects of 2D and 3D shapes.

Station #1   Building Geoblocks---students work with 3D shapes and put them together to make new and different 3D shapes.

Station #2   Ways to Fill---students work with 2D shapes to fill an object with specific directions and have to record their combinations. (no pictures listed)

Station #3    Shape Exploration---students work out of our Invetigations workbook with different pages to take a deeper look at 2D shapes like rhombus', trapezoids, triangles, squares and hexagons. (no pictures listed)

Station #4    Computer shape station---students go to our class website and click on the link for 2D and 3D shapes. They are able to read about the different shapes and be able to manipulate them around to look at them more deeply.

Research Central

Today we used our new MacBook Air mobile computer lab to continue our research on the life cycles of animals. Mr. Massey, our technology expert, came and helped us learn about operating the MacBooks and were able to use an online smore to conduct our research. We were so focused on our purpose and gained so much new learning.

2nd Grade so far...

Welcome all 2nd graders!
Our year is well underway and we are off to a great start! We have been learning so many new things specific to being 2nd graders and stepping up to a new and more challenging level of learning.
We are all excited to see ourselves grow. We have been setting goals as a class and individually so we can track our growth throughout the year.
I am excited as your teacher to watch you grow and I have already seen such growth already this year in maturity and the new and higher expectations you have set for yourselves as 2nd graders.
I would like to remind you all to read every night at least 20 minutes. Reading fluency is a big focus for us this year and I know we can ALL reach our goal of reading 100 words per minute by the end of the year if we remain committed to our reading growth!

-Mrs. Pace

Tracking Our Inner Voice

We are learning how reacting to text by: asking a question, responding with an emotion, having a connection or drawing a picture with a brief explanation will help us comprehend text better.

Hello Friends!

I hope everyone is having a great summer and are reading a lot! I miss you all very much! Feel free to leave a message about something fun you have done this summer!

Love,
Mrs. Pace

Hello Summer!!!

Wow! I cannot believe that summer is already here. I want to say how very proud I am of everyone in my class. You all have worked so very hard and are ready for 4th grade! I know today is the first official day that we are out of school for the summer, but I have a few questions for my wonderful class:

What have you all been doing so far?

What book are you reading?

Who has been to the public library to enroll in the summer reading program?

How many of you have been playing outside?

I have been reading "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey. This books goes along with our "7 Habits for Happy Kids" book that we read this year, but goes into more detail. I've already been thinking of things to do for Wildcat Team Time for next year.

I cannot wait to hear from you all!

~Mrs. Pace~